What is another word for euphony?

Pronunciation: [jˈuːfənˌɪ] (IPA)

Euphony is a word that describes the quality of being pleasing to the ear. If you are looking for synonyms that can help you to express the same sentiment, you might consider words like harmony, melody, musicality, rhythm, or sonority. Each of these words captures a different aspect of the pleasing sound that euphony conveys. Harmony suggests a blending of disparate elements into a pleasing whole; melody implies a particular tune or sequence of notes that is pleasing to the ear; musicality suggests a sense of rhythm and flow; rhythm denotes the pattern of sounds and beats; and sonority suggests a full, rich, and resonant quality.

What are the hypernyms for Euphony?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Euphony?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

Usage examples for Euphony

All her absurd fears washed away, her free hand could lie without spasm in Henry's, and it was as if she found in her last words a secret euphony that delighted her.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
Two winters' labor would often give the thrifty builder a staunch boat of his own, to be christened the "Polly Ann," or the "Mary Jane"-more loyal to family ties than to poetic euphony were the Yankee fishermen-with which he would drive into the teeth of the north-east gale, breaking through the waves as calmly as in early spring at home he forced his plough through the stubble.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
Oh, from out the sounding cells, 25 What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
"Selections From Poe"
J. Montgomery Gambrill

Famous quotes with Euphony

  • Time spent in labouring to perfect one’s style, or to make of it an instrument for the production of imaginative effects, is, Mr. Read tells us, just so much time wasted. Indeed Mr. Middleton Murry says it is worse than this, for nothing could be more dangerous than the notion that the more poetic is prose, the finer it is; this is a heresy that cannot be too much deplored and combated. ‘The terrible attraction of words, the impulse to use them for anything more than exact symbols of the things they stand for, is another danger; any sacrifice of sense to euphony being, these critics tell us, the beginning of decadence: ‘it is a step on the downward path.’ The histories and associations of words, are, Mr. Read says, entirely irrelevant to prose-style, their face-value in current usage being their only value. The young writer is also warned against rhythmical effects and the use of images, and is told that any conscious care for such devices, any playing, like Stevenson, of the sedulous ape to the masters of this technique, must be carefully eschewed.
    Logan Pearsall Smith

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